Turns out Sean Spicer can take “The Heat," even if President Trump can't.

Turns out Sean Spicer can take "The Heat," even if President Trump can't.

The White House Press Secretary took Melissa McCarthy's fiery "Saturday Night Live" skewering in stride — conceding it was a "funny" show, but suggesting the comic "could dial back" her belligerent, gum-gorging impression of him.

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McCarthy "needs to slow down on the gum chewing; way too many pieces in there," Spicer added during an interview with "Extra" during Sunday's Super Bowl.

The actress, spoofing Spicer's reported habit of chewing and swallowing 35 pieces of Orbit cinnamon daily, had declared she was "here to swallow gum and to take names," affixing a behemoth glob of half-chewed gum to the lectern for later.

The press secretary showed more good humor about the wildly popular sketch — in which McCarthy-as-Spicer donned an ill-fitting suit to spew furious falsehoods, ram the briefing-room podium into dissenting journalists and imprison a diapered CNN scribe in a cage — during a separate interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade.

"It was cute; it's funny," he said. "I'd rather us talk about the issues that the president is so committed to helping Americans on. It's part of American culture."

But Trump was apparently less pleased with McCarthy's impression than his press secretary was.

".@NBCNews is bad but Saturday Night Live is the worst of NBC. Not funny, cast is terrible, always a complete hit job," the President, who hosted the show in November, tweeted Jan. 15. "Really bad television!"